HISTORY, HISTORY HD Continue European Rollout

NEW YORK/LONDON: Estonia is the latest European country to launch both HISTORY and HISTORY HD, bringing the channels’ range of historical-based programming to the Elion platform.

HISTORY and HISTORY HD launched on Elion on February 1. The channels offer a range of historical genres, covering ancient to contemporary history, technology, natural history, military history, science, archaeology, pop culture and more. Original series include The Universe, Modern Marvels, Ice Road Truckers and Ancient Discoveries. HISTORY—which is now available in more than 145 countries in more than 200 million TV households—first launched in Estonia with Starman in November 2009.

“We are very pleased to launch on Elion,” said Tom Davidson, the managing director of AETN UK. “We are proud to be partnering with the largest telco in Estonia and building our subscriber base in Estonia now with carriage on both Elion and Starman.”

“One of our goals is to be an innovation leader on Estonian television market and HDTV is definitely the keyword this year,” added Marko Levo, the program manager of digiTV at Elion. “Having grown to such measures in the market, it is our duty to bring the highest quality and best practice from the world and turn them into valuable offers for our customers. Good selection of HD channels will definitely help us to reach our goals and live up to our customers’ expectations.”